10 Crazy Facts From Internet History

Tim Berners-Lee is credited with the invention of the World Wide Web as we know it today.
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When you think of the "World Wide Web," you likely imagine a sprawling network of computers circling the globe, blasting information to each other 24 hours a day.

And you'd be right, though this wasn't always the case.

When he first invented it in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee kept the entire World Wide Web (which was still rather small for a time) on his NeXTcube from NeXT, the company started by Steve Jobs after being ousted from Apple.

This is of course but one example from the Internet's unusual history. We have nine more for you.

There are sites out there for people looking for effective suicide instructions.

A blessing or a curse? If the Internet is a giant collection of the world's information, then part of that information exists specifically to teach you how to kill yourself.

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One in six marriages today occur because the couple met online.

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The dynamics of romance are changing, and have been rapidly. When you can effectively quantify and attempt to objectively examine people's compatibility with each other, it only makes sense that they'll take to it as a means of finding a mate.